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'This brilliant debut collection examines a ‘haunted’ Queer and HIV-positive identity. It follows an HIV diagnosis and a departure from Singapore as the poet moves from being secretive about his HIV status, towards living a more public life, in which living openly with HIV is characterised by the queer longing toward both resilience and transformation.' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
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Shadow Dance
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , July 2023;
— Review of Paradise (Point of Transmission) 2022 selected work poetry'Andrew Sutherland’s Paradise (point of transmission) is an uncanny journey of estrangement and ‘elation’ focalised around his diagnosis as HIV positive in Singapore, where he had based his life. Unable to continue living there due to the ban on HIV positive foreigners in Singapore (lifted in 2015 to allow tourists with HIV status to enter on a 90-day visa), Sutherland returned to the Western Australia ‘of his childhood’, to undergo treatment and start over again.' (Introduction)
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Shadow Dance
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , July 2023;
— Review of Paradise (Point of Transmission) 2022 selected work poetry'Andrew Sutherland’s Paradise (point of transmission) is an uncanny journey of estrangement and ‘elation’ focalised around his diagnosis as HIV positive in Singapore, where he had based his life. Unable to continue living there due to the ban on HIV positive foreigners in Singapore (lifted in 2015 to allow tourists with HIV status to enter on a 90-day visa), Sutherland returned to the Western Australia ‘of his childhood’, to undergo treatment and start over again.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2023 shortlisted Small Press Network Book of the Year Award
